'I skip school to demand climate change action'

A planned protest on Friday will see schoolchildren across the UK walk out of their lessons to demand action over climate change. We have been to meet some of the teenagers looking to take control of their futures. Every Friday morning, 13-year-old Holly Gillibrand, from Fort William, skips school for an hour. She says the "sacrifice", as she describes it, is "a small price to pay for standing up for our planet". "If you get a detention, that's nothing to how we will suffer in future if nothing is done," she tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

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